Author: Harold Dalton

Cyanide, and their new publisher with a daft name, have confirmed more details about their new Tour de France 2020 videogame for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. The big news? It’s got a first person camera. Ever wanted a POV of a virtual Chris Froome’s lycra-covered ass crack? Now you got it, plus some spindly little arms that seem like they’d be really disorienting as you try to play. Looks absolutely horrible. Maybe if it has VR headset support… ah, but then we’d have to buy a VR headset and wear it. What would the neighbors think? In other…

Yeah, we’re doing a #tbt today. One of the Ts stands for Tuesday. Here are our media awards from 2009. Which seems a bit weird, since we were also earning a living working in that same media. At least we didn’t say that Cycling.TV was either really good or really shit this time, like we used to do depending on our general mood. And that 2009 Armstrong – Contador feud turned out to be funnier than we expected. This entire article about it reads like a Striking the Sun chapter. “I went to see Lance before the race and he…

Meilan is one of those rare companies that hits us up on our work email and we have to quietly move them over to the Cyclry ecosystem. We’re actually not sure what their deal is. They manufacture a lot of gear that looked interesting enough for us to reply asking for a review unit, but all that happened was that they started sending us their cryptic press releases even more frequently. Look: we’re open to off-brand cycling gear. Head units and sensors are pretty much still relegated to the AliExpress category, with even the most high-end gear barely approaching technology…

The Muur-Kapelmuur. It’s a climb so tough they named it twice. Until recently, it was the decisive climb that settled the Ronde van Vlaanderen, and it’s still the one-two punch with the Bosberg that settles Omloop Het Nieuwsblad. It’s also known as the Muur van Geraardsbergen, named for the town it overlooks. Geraardsbergen is one of those anonymous grey Belgian towns that just about conceals its heroin problem enough for American tourists to be fooled by its cobbled streets. Its biggest cultural asset, apart from the cobbled hill this article is about, is a statue of a boy pissing. Not the really…

Welcome to the inaugural Cyclry monthly wrap up of pro cycling life. While it’s a month that will go down in history for a lot of reasons, there’s not a great deal of bike racing to talk about… So we’ve really picked a great time to launch this. We’re experimenting with a podcast format for this feature. Let us know if you hate it. Also let us know what platforms you’d like to see it on… Without any further ado, it’s time for a feature that always been a great hit in the car on the way to bike races:…

Cahiers du Cyclisme, January 2011 edition Cycling is unique as a mediasport not in that it’s a sport entirely devised by the media, but in that it’s a mediasport whose entire structure is wholly resistant to media coverage. Cycling was initially consumed not as sport but as literary spectacle, something you could see in person but only ever understand through the written word. The Tour de France’s conception was as serialised story in a newspaper, a grand narrative captivating its readers. Perhaps it’s for this reason the pre-war records are dismissed as fanciful, relating to a type of sport few modern fans recognise, the tales…

Digital WorldBike is happening right now. We’ll be periodically editing this post to add updates for as long as our enthusiasm holds. Welcome This is what it looks like. The backdrop changes every few seconds. If you click Conference, you can hear people talk Sport, Tech, or Mobility. If you click Expo you can look at some virtual trade show stands (and harass the company’s employees via text chat). If you click Info, you can choose between a chat room and registering for some kind of thing. Jens greets you. We saw this twice, so it probably wasn’t live unless…

We’re all stuck inside avoiding the deadly plague. Well, ok, we can see you’re still getting out on Strava. But we can’t go to the pub, which means we have plenty of free time. For that reason, some of our favourite bike mags are now free for the duration of the lockdown. We’ve included them here, plus a few free books if you’re feeling more revolutionary. Ok. Here they are, in order of how much we like them. Conquista “To give you all something to do while you’re stuck indoors we have decided to make pdf versions of all previous…